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a string of beads engineered to hijack your worried hands into prayer.
means A string of beads used in Catholic devotion to count a sequence of prayers, and the cycle of prayers itself.
from From Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" or "garland of roses" — the medieval idea being that each prayer offered up was a rose, and the whole devotion a bouquet woven for the Virgin Mary. The word reached English through Old French rosaire. The flower link runs deep: the very word "bead" comes from Old English bede, meaning "prayer," so a string of beads was literally a string of prayers long before it counted anything.
- bead count
- Fifty-nine beads, no fidget spinner required
- word origin
- From rosarium, Latin for rose garden
- medieval bling
- Some were edible, made of crushed rose petals
- battle credit
- Credited by the Pope for winning Lepanto, 1571
- global echo
- Counting beads to pray predates Christianity entirely
sorrowful mysteries rosary — catholic devotional prayer cycle focused on christ's passion, recited on tuesdays and fridays
joyful mysteries rosary — catholic prayer cycle covering annunciation through finding in temple, recited on mondays and saturdays